YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon has banned burqas in the Far North region after two women dressed in the religious garments blew themselves up last week in a suspected Boko Haram attack, a local governor said on Wednesday.
The twin attacks in Cameroon's northern town of Fotokol killed at least 13 people, the government said.
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